Beatles For Sale

Beatles For Sale: Howe Everything They Touched Turned to Gold by John Blaney

This book was, in basic terms, the biography of the popular band Beatles. However, unlike most this book focused on an aspect of the Beatles: their money. Or to be more specific, the business. Most other biographies focus on the musical end. However, by focusing on the business aspect, John Blaney showed us a new insight to the Beatles. 

Surprsingly, you learn a lot of their seemingly personal decisions was influenced by money. Blaney's new insight also includes Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles, and how he pioneered the modern music industry. At the same time, you barely even realize that half of this book is a business book because of how skillfully Blaney weaved the history of Beatles and the Beatles' money together. 

The book begins with the Beatles' first shows as the "The Quarry Men" to the infamous Apple brand court battles in the 21st century. This book shows how by trying new things never done before, how the Beatles got extremely famous and well, rich. 

I thought the best part about the book was that for the first time, there were actually a lot of information on the last and invisible member of the Beatles: their manager Brian Epstein. We get to see more  of his background and how he met the Beatles and how he helped their business which was pretty fun for me. I also loved the quotes from the Beatles about money in the cover of each chapter. Between the newly delved topic, through research, and great writing, I'd give this book 5/5 stars.